Contra Roots and Branches was produced in cooperation of the Country Dance and Song Society and features fourteen great contra bands from across North America. We here in Westmoreland NH, listen to this CD every day. It must be the fact that we chose and tunes. This is a very happy CD.

one Roads is the first CD for Wild Asparagus. Released in 1990, Tone Roads also released a flurry of excitement in the contra music scene. The dance crowds were waiting for this recording and their wait was rewarded with first class music that spread the joy and excitement beyond the dance community to new audiences. Audiences found that Wild Asparagus produced first class listening music too.

Wild Asparagus really struts it's stuff on this their third CD. George Marshall's swirling concertina plays tag with Becky Tracy's fiddle and David Canteini's flute, oboe and bombard. Ann Percival's creative yet solid rhythm on guitar and piano keeps the rest of the crew in line. Some of their most memorable cuts are here, such as Lafferty's, the Orphan and Belle Gaspesie medleys.

Tone Roads is the first CD for Wild Asparagus. Released in 1990, Tone Roads also released a flurry of excitement in the contra music scene. The dance crowds were waiting for this recording and their wait was rewarded with first class music that spread the joy and excitement beyond the dance community to new audiences. Audiences found that Wild Asparagus produced first class listening music too.

Wild Asparagus produces great folk music. Sam Amidon and Thomas Bartlett of Popcorn Behavior says it all. "Folk Music at its best: uniquely fine-tuned and complex arrangements that are always rooted in the raw energy of dance music. Wild Asparagus produces folk music so full of ideas that you'll never lose interest, and with so much groove that you'll never stop dancing". usicians: Becky Tracy, David Cantieni, George Marshall, Ann Percival, Stuart Kenney, Keith Murphy, Lee Blackwell. 2001.